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noun
An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
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Synonyms: shack, shanty
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noun
In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A straitjacket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Midwestern-US, archaic, slang
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verb
To put in a hovel; to shelter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To construct a chimney so as to prevent smoking, by making two of the more exposed walls higher than the others, or making an opening on one side near the top.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hut, hutch, shack, shanty
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Broader terms: shelter
Narrower terms: igloo, iglu, mudhif
History
From Middle English hovel, hovil, hovylle, diminutive of *hove, *hof (“structure, building, house”), from Old English hof (“an enclosure, court, dwelling, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“arch, bend, buckle”), equivalent to howf + -el. Compare Middle High German hobel (“cover, lid, covered wagon”). Cognate with Dutch hof (“garden, court”), German Hof (“yard, garden, court, palace”), Icelandic hof (“temple, hall”). Related to hove and hover.
Across languages
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